The Ball-Aban Newshttp://ballaban.kinja.comKinja RSSenHere's How You Test An Unsinkable Boathttps://jalopnik.com/heres-how-you-test-an-unsinkable-boat-1823075196

The Thunder Child, built by a company called Safehaven Marine, is meant to be nearly unsinkable. That means it’s not supposed to go down, even if it completely capsizes. And there’s only one real way to test that. You gotta flip it and see what happens.

]]>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:50:46 GMT1823067553Dyson's Plan To Build Three Electric Cars From Scratch Is Nuts And Just Might Workhttps://jalopnik.com/dysons-plan-to-build-three-electric-cars-from-scratch-i-1823052977

Dyson is mostly known as a prominent manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, and that’s fine. But in September it announced it wanted to get into the electric car business, and it had $2.8 billion with which to do it. Now the Financial Times has got more details on how it plans to do it, and how it just might…

]]>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:41:15 GMT1822939513How The Hubris Of Man Turned The New York City Subway Into Wet Trashhttps://jalopnik.com/how-the-hubris-of-man-turned-the-new-york-city-subway-i-1822934877

The New York City subway is inundated with 13 million - 13 MILLION – gallons of water a day. Every day. Every dry day. If it’s raining, it’s full of even more water. And it turns out a big part of that is because our great forefathers before us had absolutely zero clue what they were doing.

Listen, it’s okay. You can admit. Your biggest childhood fantasy. You know the one. I know the one. We’ve all had that one. You always dreamed of having the singular, awesome ability to punch straight through glass like a total BAMF. Apparently, with just a bit of freezing rain and your car window, dreams can come…

]]>winterSun, 11 Feb 2018 22:00:00 GMT1822912803I’m a Jeep fan but I have to say, I agree with the Fish Guy. https://jalopnik.com/1822908009I’m a Jeep fan but I have to say, I agree with the Fish Guy. It’s incredibly disrespectful to the environment and an ad like that really encourages bad behavior on the part of Jeep owners. Hunters and fishermen, who make up a large segment of the Jeep market, are (or should be) great stewards of the environment. Jeep…

The New York City subway, it’s widely acknowledged, is terrible compared to what it used to be. The basics—rails, signals, the system itself—are all fundamentally broken. Nevertheless, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo plows on with massively overdone capital projects. And his shining centerpiece is broken, too.

Within days of Volkswagen’s admission in September 2015 that it purposely installed software on diesel vehicles to deceive regulators during vehicle emissions tests, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turned its attention elsewhere to one of America’s own car companies—Fiat Chrysler.

“Structural blue does not contain any blue material. It looks blue only because of the interference of light.” So begins the explanation of how Lexus created a color known only as “Structural Blue.” It’s almost like a zen koan, and I’m still not sure I understand it.

While there may now be a car in space, and the core of the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched it may be a bit worse for the wear, the twin Falcon 9-based boosters that helped make it all happen are safe and sound back on Earth. And not only did they look good, they made two big bangs doing it.

The Philippines has had a bit of a problem with people smuggling cars into the country without paying taxes. So to make a point, it just crushed a whole bunch of confiscated cars by driving over them with a bulldozer.

]]>philippinescar lawssmugglingTue, 6 Feb 2018 20:36:00 GMT1822768270I am just trying to imagine how good a Corvette ZR1 would be, with its supposedly extremely good chahttps://jalopnik.com/1822767117I am just trying to imagine how good a Corvette ZR1 would be, with its supposedly extremely good chassis, with a mere 300 horsepower. This is the best idea anyone has ever had.

]]>Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:53:33 GMT1822767117This is absolute nonsense. https://jalopnik.com/1822456897This is absolute nonsense. To blame predatory lending permitted by deliberate removal of oversight regulating the rapacious finance industry on “socialist ideas” is so absurd that it could only promulgated by an ideologue, a moron, or both.